Languages: English (business language), and either fluent French or fluent German

1st Executive are currently retained with a Global 500 organisation, currently establishing a new procurement department to manage a previously unaddressed spend.

Working for a leading brand, you will be someone who enjoys establishing, building and growing teams, in an environment that can ambiguous and entrepreneurial.

Stepping into a completely greenfield environment, your first responsibilities will be to take ownership of the spend and to start building a team of experienced category managers as well as graduate hires.

Working with suppliers who have a monopoly, you will be someone who can lead bespoke cost modelling, clean sheet calculations and utilise VA/VE principles.

Having experience in a decentralised environment, you will be someone who can engage will stakeholder groups European wide.

Your Profile:

You are currently working at a head of position, leading a team of at least 10 other procurement professionals

Ideally from an automotive background, you have technical experience using VA/VE principles and Cost Modelling. Experience with clean sheet calculations or similar will be beneficial

You have experience with building and developing teams, both in terms of hiring new headcounts and upskilling existing juniors

You have experience with transformation and are comfortable stepping into a procurement function where the categories have never been sourced through procurement before

You have experience with leading large direct categories (€250MM+), for stakeholder groups that international located

You are able to deliver results when working with suppliers who have an absolute monopoly